(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Marianella community celebrated its 30th anniversary of repopulation. The week was packed with different activities that the Junta Directiva of the community and the committees put together to keep alive the spirit of community, solidarity, and most importantly, organization. From February 23rd to March 3rd, community members gathered at the main soccer […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Written by Jacey Anderson / translated by Mario Guevara On Friday, February 22, Zulma Hernández (CRIPDES-Sur) and Zulma Tobar (USESSC) led a training for the staff of Workers Defense Project (WDP), a Texas non-profit that focuses on migrant worker rights. Twenty young organizers participated as “las Zulmas” (with support form Jacey […]
Today, Zulma Hernández (from CRIPDES Sur La Libertad), Zulma Tobar (Sister Cities’ staff in El Salvador), Jonathan Falk and Jacey Anderson led a 6-hour PopEd workshop for about 20 members of the staff of Workers Defense Project, a Texas grassroots organization that works with immigrant workers to help them defend their rights. The workshop focused […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) At the beginning of 2019, a group of representatives from Naya Global Health, formerly HDCP, visited the community of Las Anonas (sistered with Philadelphia) and started to learn more about kidney disease that for many years has been affecting many residents of the area. They learnt about the direct connection with the […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Yesterday, new young men and women attended Cripdes San Vicente’s meeting to become new scholarship recipients. They are taking the places of those who graduated last year. They were accompanied by their relatives and, in some cases, by community board members. The three of them signed an agreement that states that […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) From January 9th to January 20th, a delegation of students from Edgewood College visited El Salvador as a way to understand more of the themes already discussed in their class led by Ian Davies and Marc Rosenthal, from the Madison-Arcatao Sister Citiy Project. Most of the participants are studying to become […]
Last saturday, Arely Ortega (the sistering representative from CCR) joined me in a trip to San José Las Flores. There, we were met by Zoila Guardado and Dora Serrano and both of them provided some news on the situation of Las Flores. The board – the board is still strong and will be in place […]
(En español abajo) On November 22nd, the coordinator team of the Scholarship program of CRIPDES Sur La Libertad carried out the last meeting and disbursement of the scholarship for the fifteen scholarship recipients from different communities of the south area of La Libertad. During the meeting, the team took time to make a general evaluation […]
